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"How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight" by @moh_kohn is another great example why building things on the web with #ProgressiveEnhancement (and #astro) in mind absolutely rules:

https://www.mohkohn.co.uk/writing/html-first/

#WebDev #frontend #html #WebComponents #a11y #accessibility #InclusiveDesign

How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight

My client was a utility company, and they had a big problem...

📝 New post: A workaround for `:host(:has([slot]))` in Chromium using `@Scope` #webcomponents

https://daverupert.com/2026/06/fix-for-host-has-slot/

A workaround for hiding empty slots in Chromium

Named slots are one of web components’ biggest superpowers ✨. Imagine a Button component with an optional icon; in Web Components we don’t need a separate Button and IconButton, a single Button component with <slot name="icon"> will do. Or a card component with a handful of predefined slots for image, title, description, price, metadata, etc. Not 100 different cards… one card.

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How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight

"It is not acceptable to bounce users on old browsers, users with bad network connections, users using assistive technologies. Certainly not from a monopoly public service. A lot of hype and noise is pressing us to extend the cowboy, wild-west phase of the software industry’s expansion. We should set that aside, and take ourselves seriously as a mature industry. Build a web application that works on a playstation portable on a 3G connection - if you do, it will work for all your users, and it ..."

https://mohkohn.co.uk/writing/html-first/

#accessibility #html #webcomponents #webdev
How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight

My client was a utility company, and they had a big problem...

Tool: <click-to-play> — a still that plays

<click-to-play> — a still that plays

Simon Willison’s Weblog

@matmair > If someone spends time not for their own singular use case but overall quality and reliability I care.

Fair, but I'd bet some talented django devs are turned away by the pain in the frontend.

I hope it gets to the point I can ignore the frontend enough to contribute to the backend and I'd encourage you to look at how NetBox handles this. Similar TS frontend, good form completions but I've never even had to look at it's frontend build process.

Also #webcomponents

#Development #Approaches
Building an HTML-first site · How it doubled a company’s users overnight https://ilo.im/16dnhl

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#Business #Users #Forms #Website #WebComponents #Astro #React #WebDev #Frontend #HTML

How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight

My client was a utility company, and they had a big problem...

Added undo/redo to the node editor demo and started cleaning up some of the styles for the resize handles.

Small part of the main project, but will be nice having the ability to visualize the state management.

Next is connecting the debugger and adding some styles to visualize stepping through a larger script.

#webcomponents

How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight

My client was a utility company, and they had a big problem...

Une petite entrée en matière sur les Web Components.

🔗 https://gomakethings.com/guides/web-components/

#webcomponents

Web Components

How to create custom HTML elements with built-in attributes and interactivity.